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Date:      Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:46:27 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell D830, nVidia and FreeBSD-8/amd64
Message-ID:  <200912141046.27194.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091213191905.GA76785@osiris.chen.org.nz>
References:  <20091213191905.GA76785@osiris.chen.org.nz>

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On Sunday 13 December 2009 2:19:05 pm Jonathan Chen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is a general rehash of a problem that I've been having with my
> Dell Latitude D830 with an nVidia Quadro NVS 140M internal graphics
> card. I've been using the XOrg's "vesa" driver ever since something in the
> code rendered the "nvidia" driver inoperable in 7-STABLE sometime mid
> last year. With nVidia's new 195.22 (BETA) drivers, I had hoped that I
> could bypass the problem. Unfortunately, I seem to be experiencing the same
> problem as described in the following thread:
> 
>    http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=142391
> 
> which appears to be implying that something in the kernel is
> interfering with memory allocation. Would it be possible for someone
> with deeper kernel-fu be able to take a look at this issue?

Do you have a verbose dmesg available?

-- 
John Baldwin



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